FOR RED CROSS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21556, 19 January 1940, Page 7

FOR RED CROSS

CHINESE CHILDREN GIVE ART SHOW (Special—By Air Mall) LONDON, December 23. London’s latest art show, opened this week at galleries in Bond Street, is an exhibition of paintings by two Chinese child artists—a boy, aged 8, and a girl of 9. They are Plato and Christina Chan, son and daughter of a Chinese diplomat now in London, and the exhibition of more than 100 of their pictures was opened by Sabu, the Elephant Boy of the films. Plato will be painting scenes or portraits "while you wait” for buyers every day during the run of the exhibition, which is to raise funds for the Red Cross. Plato has been painting ever since he could hold a brush- His pictures are quite in the modern Western style and represent the child’s conception of life. He is now engaged on a big canvas entitled “Right is Might.” It visualises the strength of the British Empire. with a central figure of King George VI at his Coronation, surrounded by Dominion emblems, and a host of political leaders among whom one can detect Chamberlain, Churchill, Halifax, Eden and Lloyd George. Plato keeps on adding figures and emblems to this picture every day whenever any new idea strikes him.